Devlog

This book is an ashcan edition: it circulates in order to be played, and it changes. Here is why, every time — what made me cut, rewrite or settle something, and what it costs you if you are already playing.

These entries appear first on itch.io, where the audience for this kind of game is. They land here in both languages.

If what you want is the list of what moved, date by date, that is the ashcan journal.

23 September 2026What is not written does not existA new section opens part 0, and it states the law the rest of the book had been obeying in silence: you may prepare, but only writing creates.Read the entry 21 September 2026The cards stopped decidingTwo resolutions became one: the coin settles every uncertain outcome now. The first devlog that invalidates a rule you may have played.Read the entry 18 September 2026The world does not only happenPart 10 carries two movements: what comes, and what lasts. And the coin finally has a picture, one that shows the question.Read the entry 16 September 2026One gesture at a timeMaking a character is four gestures now, one after another, and the introduction stops explaining the game before it has shown you one.Read the entry 15 September 2026The book stops explaining itselfFifteen hundred words of gloss gone, five part openings rewritten to show the gesture, and three words retired from the lexicon.Read the entry 12 September 2026The page stops being whiteA day spent in layout: a watercolour ground, a closed foot, a gold rule at every threshold. Nothing about the rules.Read the entry 11 September 2026Four thousand words lighterParts 0 through 11 lost a seventh of their rule prose to a cutting pass. Not one rule changed.Read the entry 10 September 2026Liseciel is now Ask the SkyThe English edition takes a name English can say. Not a translation of the word, a translation of the gesture.Read the entry 9 September 2026The 78, card by cardA new appendix, one entry per card: what the picture shows, and the matter it offers a scene. Never what it means.Read the entry